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>If you are installing Bugzilla on SuSE Linux, or some other
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>This is because your <TT
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>/var/spool/mqueue</TT
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    directory has a mode of <SAMP
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    Type <B
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    as root to fix this problem. This will allow any process running on your
    machine the ability to <EM
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    <TT
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